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• The invention of the UPC code began back in 1948, when the president of the Food Fair chain of grocery stores went to see the dean of Philadelphia’s Drexel Institute of Technology to beg him to instigate research on capturing product information automatically at the checkout counter. The dean said no, but the entire conversation had been overheard by a graduate student named Bernard Silver.

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• Silver was intrigued and mentioned the issue to his friend Joseph Woodland, who was a graduate student and teacher at Drexel. Together the two men began to work on the project.

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• To read the code, Woodland used the same technology he’d been working with on his Musak project. The technology was originally invented for movie sound tracks: sound was printed in a light-and-dark pattern on a transparent strip along the edges of the film, read by a light, transformed to electric waveforms, converted to sound, and played by loudspeakers. Woodland and Silver filed a patent application on October 20, 1949.

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• In 1951 Woodland got a job with IBM where he hoped to push his invention forward. In his spare time, he and Silver built the first actual bar code scanner in the middle of Woodland’s living room. The finished product was the size of desk, wrapped in oil cloth to keep out the light, and used a 500-watt light bulb along with the same kind of photomultiplier tube used in movie sound systems, which was hooked up to an oscilloscope. When a bar code on a piece of paper was moved across a beam of light from the bulb, the beam was reflected into the tube of the sound system, which caused the signal of the oscilloscope to move, which translated what had been on the paper. It was crude, it was huge, it so terribly hot it caused the paper to catch on fire, but it worked. Their patent was granted in 1952.

• IBM offered to buy the patent, but Woodland and Silver thought the offer was too low. A few weeks later, Philco met their price and purchased the patent in 1962. Philco later sold the patent rights to RCA. • Meantime, technology progressed relentlessly. By the late 1960s, lasers were common and inexpensive. Lasers used a single milli-watt helium-neon beam instead of a 500watt incandescent bulb. Integrated circuits were invented, and suddenly a single microchip could do the work of a wall full of switches. The bars of the bar code were revised to record the numbers 0 through 9 instead of Morse code.

• Railroads were interested in bar codes because tracking freight cars caused an impossible tangle of paperwork. In 1969, railroads became the first industry to make widespread use of the bar code. General Trading Company of New Jersey followed suit, using bar codes to direct shipments to the right loading docks in its distribution facility. Then the General Motors plant in Michigan began to use them to monitor production.

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3. Five players have tossed 20 or more touchdown passes in each of their first three NFL seasons. Name four of them.

4. Name the last time before 2013-14 (Harvard) that an Ivy League men’s basketball school won a NCAA Tournament game two consecutive years.

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• In 1973, the Uniform Grocery Product Code set nationwide standards for the bar code and the Universal Product Code – or UPC – was born.

The National Cash Register Company began building efficient scanners and introduced the first model at the 1974 convention of the Super Market Institute.

• Six weeks later, on June 26, 1974 at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a jumbo package of Wrigley’s chewing gum was the first item ever scanned. It just happened to be the first item out of the shopping cart of a shopper, and it is on display at the Smithsonian Institute.

• The UPC code is composed of two sets of five digits which give the manufacturer’s code first and the product code second, so that every item scanned has its own unique ID number.

The identifying numerals are also printed along the bottom of the bar code for the sake of the checkers, in case the scanner is down or the bar code has been partially obscured and the item needs to be entered by hand. There’s also a single digit on the left side that identifies which type of product the item is: meat, produce, drugs, etc.

And a single digit on the right acts as a “check digit.” It adds up some of the previous numbers and subtracts them from 10 to come up with the magic ‘Everything OK’ number. If someone has altered the code with a felt tip marker, the numbers don’t add up and the product is rejected.

• Modern optical scanners use the same basic principal introduced by Woodland and Silver: a beam of light passing across the code records the light and dark spaces as electrical pulses, which are fed into a computer that can recognize the series of pulses as characters and match them to products. The information is fed to the computer, which not only knows the price of the item but also acts as an inventory system, tracking how much of any given item is still on hand, how fast it’s being sold, when it will need to be re-ordered, how many coupons have been redeemed, as well as tracking community purchasing patterns.

• Bar codes are not just for pricing products.

They are also used for tracking inventory on aircraft carriers; for coding blood in blood banks; for following applications in the Patent Office; for identifying people in places like hospitals, libraries, and cafeterias; for sorting baggage at airports; for marking clothing left at the dry cleaner’s; for monitoring radio-collared endangered animals; and for keeping track of logs in lumberyards. The Army uses them to identify ships. Runners in the New York City Marathon don bar codes on their vests and the computer records the order in which they cross the finish line. At the Masters Golf Tournament in Georgia, bar codes on spectator passes prevent scalping and theft of badges. NASA put bar codes on the backs of heat-resistant tiles to make sure they were installed on the correct spots of the space shuttles. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires all hazardous materials have bar codes that can be easily scanned to find out its characteristics in case there’s an accident.

• Silver, who died in 1963 at the age of 38, never got to see his invention reach phenomenal proportions. But Woodland was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Bush in 1992.

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• The machine was a crude cash register that kept a running tab of money received during the day. The saloon keeper patented it in 1879 but had sold only 19 in two years. Patterson ordered two of them sight unseen. They cost $50 each. In the next six months his previously unprofitable coal store turned a $5,000 profit because employees were no longer able to stuff money in their pockets.

• Patterson was so impressed that he bought the cash register company for $6,500. He re-named the company National Cash Register, shortened to NCR. He was convinced that selling cash registers would make him rich.

• He started out by mailing out 90,000 brochures to every major retailer in the Midwest. It was the nation’s first serious direct-mail campaign— and was a complete failure. Patterson discovered that the brochures had been received by the same salesclerks that were stealing cash. The brochures were destroyed before they could be seen by the business owners.

• Patterson changed his strategy, next sending out fancy hand-addressed envelopes marked “highly confidential.” Inside, the store owners found a fancy invitation asking them to come to the best hotel in town for a demonstration of a fool-proof method of ending employee theft forever. Just for showing up they would receive a handsome gift (such as a nice letter opener).

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• King James VI of Scotland was also, after the crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, King James I of England. He may have been doubly noble, but those who study such things say that his personal habits would not have been out of place in a commoner of the time period. He reportedly never bathed, claiming that baths were an unhealthy practice, and he would wear the same clothes for months on end.

• Three of the first five presidents of the United States -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe -- died on July 4.

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• On June 26, 1807, lightning hits a gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, sparking an explosion that kills more than 300 people and levels two entire blocks.

• On June 22, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, designed to compensate returning armed services members for their efforts in World War II. FDR hoped to avoid a relapse of the Great Depression following World War I. • On June 25, 1950, an American soccer team composed largely of amateurs stuns England 1-0 at the World Cup. The hastily assembled U.S. team included a dishwasher, two mailmen, a teacher and a mill worker.

• On June 28, 1965, in the first major offensive of the Vietnam War, 3,000 troops of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade assault a jungle area near Saigon. The operation was called off after three days when it failed to make contact with the enemy.

• On June 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon’s adviser H.R. Haldeman tells the president to pressure the head of the FBI to stay the out of the Watergate burglary investigation -- in essence, to obstruct justice. The taped conversation eventually brought the down the Nixon administration and led to his resignation.

• On June 27, 1985, after 59 years, officials vote to decertify the iconic Route 66 and to remove all its highway signs. Measuring 2,200 miles, the “Mother Road” stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states.

• On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The document stated that the “bodies” recovered were not aliens but dummies used in parachute tests. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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JOHN PATTERSON (continued):

• Patterson’s next move was to carefully coach all his salesmen in what was the nation’s first “canned speech.” He made sure they had their sales speech completely memorized, drilling them on questions prospective customers might ask. He instructed them how to behave towards the clients, and sent them fully prepared into the field. He also gave each salesman their own territory, which was another new innovation.

Then he invented the sales convention, which was “part circus, part camp meeting, and part Chautauqua.”

• Cash register sales, barely 1,000 in 1886, reached 15,000 in 1892 and 100,000 in 1910. The following year, NCR sold its millionth machine, as it became apparent that a cash register was an essential tool for retail sales.

• Next he turned to improving conditions for his workers. In an era of sweatshops, his factory in Dayton, Ohio, had floor-to-ceiling windows and landscaped gardens. There were hot showers and a cafeteria serving subsidized food.

Free medical care was provided. Employees were invited to take advantage of night school, a library, and lectures and concerts, which were all on company grounds and provided for free.

• But Patterson had a temper as well, and was well known for firing people on a whim. One of the people he fired was Charles Kettering, who had designed many improvements in the cash register. Charles was fired for failing to demonstrate proper horsemanship in a company exhibition. Kettering went to work for the auto industry instead, where he made many astonishing discoveries. Another fired employee was Thomas Watson, who subsequently went to work transforming IBM into an industrial giant.

• By the time Patterson died in 1922 at the age of 78, National Cash Register was a thriving industry. His son took over after his death and ensured that the company continued to thrive.

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2. Which group released “Everybody Loves a Clown”?

3. Name the song with the misheard lyric, “I hit my head kinda hard on the dance floor.”

4. Who penned and released “Orchard Road”?

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• A store will lose about 12% of its carts every year to theft. Each cart costs about $100.

• In a typical year about 33,000 accidents involving shopping carts will be reported.

• The average American makes 3.4 trips to the grocery store each week. Fridays are the most popular days for grocery shopping. Saturdays and Tuesdays tie for second place.

• Women do the grocery shopping 70% of the time; men do it 17% of the time; and the rest of the time they do it together. Less than half of shoppers shop alone.

• Grocery stores are designed to make the customer walk as far as possible, with basic staples placed at the far ends of the store. Studies show it’s how far the person walks in the store rather than the amount of time spent in the store that influences how much money is spent.

• Whatever department is closest to the door in a grocery store will typically sell 1% more merchandise than if it’s placed elsewhere in the store.

• A typical store will have over 25,000 items displayed including 243 items in the produce department alone.

• The apple is the most popular produce item, followed by oranges, bananas, lettuce, potatoes, and tomatoes.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK Timbuktu (PG-13) -- In the rolling dunes of Mali, alongside centuries-old cultural artifacts, families face the threat of fundamentalism forcing its way into the rhythm of life. Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed) lives simply, herding livestock with his wife, daughter and an adopted child who helps with the work. At the outset of the film, foreign jihadists are shown using priceless relics for target practice. The pastoral scene is infested with newly arrived clerics and heavilyarmed young men enforcing rules against everything from music and clothing to soccer and socializing.

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Survivor (PG-13) -- Milla Jovovich stars as a London-based American security agent. We’re not exactly sure what kind of agent, but she screens visas and rides a motorcycle. She survives a terrorist bombing, and now everyone thinks she’s responsible. The real bad guys send Pierce Brosnan -- an expert assassin who looks a little groggy -- to kill her while some boring exposition unfolds. Jovovich has to thwart a terrorist plot before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve in Times Square, but just like in real life, it’s an overhyped event that has most viewers asleep before the end.

Brosnan is usually pretty successful in his nonBond espionage roles, but he doesn’t seem to relish this one. The action sequences mostly revolve around Jovovich running, when her specialty lies more in butt-kicking.

The Forger (R) -- John Travolta’s performance in this heist flick/family drama is unbelievable.

As tough-guy art forger Ray Cutter, his sensitive painting talent, his hard-boiled fighting skills, and especially his Boston accent, are thoroughly unconvincing. Ray cuts a deal with Keegan the crime boss (Anson Mount). Keegan will help get Ray an early release from prison, and Ray will forge a Monet painting and swap it with the real-

deal in the museum. Ray makes the deal so he can spend some time with his teenage son who has a terminal brain tumor, which doesn’t make much sense, because forging a masterpiece typically takes a while.

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Running without proper funding -- it’s grants, credit and no salary for a year -- the students build a new farmer’s market for their struggling North Carolina town. It’s not an easy trip or a perfect program, but the film looks into an inspiring story of hard work and improvement.

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GROCERY STORE FACTS (continued):

• Cereals high in sugar are always stored at kids’ eye level whereas nutritious brands are placed at the adult eye level. Children’s cereals have an average of 44% sugar but adult cereals have 10% sugar. A typical store has 124 cold cereals.

• It was 1910 when the first premium was packed inside a cereal box. The Jungleland Funny Moving Pictures Book was put inside each box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.

• The items most likely to be shoplifted from a supermarket are cigarettes, health and beauty aids, meat, seafood, and batteries.

• It’s estimated that 34% of shoppers do not pay attention to food labels.

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1. Bastille Day 2. A bruise 3. A rafter 4. Kato 5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 6. Restructuring 7. Nevada 8. A dentist (doctor of dental surgery) 9. I.M. Pei 10. 590 Sports Quiz Answers 1. The White Sox’s Mark Buehrle retired 45 consecutive batters in 2009.

2. It was 1969 (Bill Landis).

3. Andy Dalton, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Russell Wilson.

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• Lemon Pledge furniture polish has more lemon in it than Country Time Lemonade does.

• The FDA ordered Mazola to remove the words “no cholesterol” from its label because the product had never contained cholesterol, nor does any vegetable oil contain cholesterol.

• The Federal Trade Commission went up against ITT Continental in 1979 for claiming their Fresh Horizons bread contained five times the fiber as whole wheat bread. The claim was true, but the company didn’t mention the extra fiber came from wood pulp.

• Sales and consumption of white bread increased every year up until 1963, when it began a slow decline.

• Ever wonder why you never see Grade B eggs at the supermarket? Those are the eggs that are sent to bakeries and other factories where the less-than-perfect eggs are used as an ingredient.

• When supermarkets first made the scene, one store called the Alpha Beta arranged everything in alphabetical order so that customers could find everything.

Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. Most likely the Civil War, with the female singer saying she’ll dress as a man and sign up to fight to be near her love.

2. Gary Lewis & the Playboys, in 1965. It was used in an episode of “The Simpsons” in 1992.

3. “Telephone,” by Lady Gaga. The correct lyric is, “I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.”

4. Leo Sayer, in 1983. The song was based on an all-night phone booth call to his estranged wife.

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